(Great Blessings)
Look, it's "Great Blessings."
I'm glad!
One Day Before the Crime
(Scientific Crime Unit Chief)
Yes?
Itomura-san?
Yes.
There's been a major incident in Sumida.
A woman's body was found in a Kinshichou love hotel.
Please come.
Roger.
- Picture. - Yes.
Okay.
Good work today.
According to the employee who found her body, she entered the room at 6 pm.
It was two hours over the time limit, so they phoned repeatedly to confirm the extension but no one answered.
Finally, they opened the room at 9 pm.
The victim?
Nishino Mika, age 22.
She had a resume.
Resume?
Huh?
What is it?
Huh?
How slow. Forensics is taking too long.
Hey, are you done yet!?
Shut up and wait.
Seems like she has an eight month old baby.
Huh?
Oda, go to the victim's house immediately.
- Yes. - Officer.
Roger.
Her baby is Nana-chan, okay?
Sign: Sumida Police Headquarters
Horrible.
She has bruising on her cheek and internal bleeding in her eye socket.
Her face and head were considerably beaten.
The bed was unused.
Meaning the crime occurred shortly after entering and before they did anything.
Please wait.
Aside from the face, all other bruises weren't from the incident.
Looking at how the color fades from purplish red to yellow,
it would have happened a week ago.
A week ago?
You mean, she was beaten up before?
What?
What's this? Did it fall during the struggle?
Then the criminal probably wore glasses.
What's your plan, Itomura?
Yes.
First, we'll send the gum and wrapper found in the trashcan for analysis.
Are you able to conclude that it's the criminal's?
Yeah. The trash in hotel rooms is usually empty.
Of course, I'll confirm first that it wasn't the victim's.
Send this nose pad for analysis too.
If the DNA matches the gum, it'll become a decisive factor.
One more thing.
I'll analyze the components of the gum and identify the product name.
How will that help the investigation?
Gum is mass produced.
Who knows if it will help or not.
But aren't you interested?
Do what you want.
Yes.
Oh, that's right.
What else?
There was this paper fortune in the victim's purse.
I'm curious that only the bottom part was left.
I'll find where she got it.
Well, analyzing the personal effects is your job.
Make sure you don't investigate.
Yes.
Focus only on your work. Personal effects chief.
Yes.
Timer, Translator: mhaellix
Translator: mikilove13
(Door: Nishino)
Is someone home?
It's been hard because she hasn't been paying rent.
Key.
How is it?
Be prepared.
Huh?
What the heck.
Who are you?
The neighbor.
Who are you?
The police.
Nishino-san was killed.
What? No way!?
Do you know about Nishino-san's baby?
What?
Well, I think she took the baby with her when she escaped.
Escape?
Yeah, from that man.
You know, the one named Yuya.
That man definitely did it!
Yuya?
According to a neighbor at the apartment she was living with a man named Yuya who was in his mid 20's.
They began to live together about three months ago.
They've been fighting from the start but it got worse these past few weeks
and one week ago...
Hey, I really don't have money.
Let go.
Hey!
Shut up brat!
That's milk money!
What the heck?!
You wench! Hey!
Whatcha lookin' at?! I'll kill you!
Are you okay, Nishino-san?
Are you okay? Should I call the police?
It's okay.
That day Nishino Mika-san left with her child.
And the man named Yuya hasn't been located.
After that evening, the victim and her baby stayed at a business hotel by the Ryougoku Station for five nights.
And the whereabouts of the baby?
Nothing yet.
However, I've called for the cooperation of other jurisdictions and other institutions since it's a life or death situation.
Find that man immediately.
Next! The hotel security cameras.
Yes. A man was seen with the victim but his face is too blurry to make out.
The man left the room 15 minutes after entering it.
After leaving her house, the victim withdrew all her money from the bank.
However, the victim only had 421 yen.
There is a possibility she was at the love hotel with the purpose of prostitution.
If that's the case, then there's a chance that it was an unplanned murder.
What!?
Yes.
I've mentioned this on my report but I'd like to know where the victim found the paper fortune that was inside her purse.
So during your investigation, please confirm with shrines and temples...
We don't have that much time!
Oh please, personal effects chief.
I can't stand him.
The baby was found!
She was abandoned in a hospital in West Arakawa the night before yesterday.
In short, she abandoned her child and went to a love hotel.
First, bring in her live-in partner.
Also check if it was a random murder.
Trace the victim's actions yesterday, and see the person on the business card that the victim had.
Get information from her family back home too! That's it!
Yes sir!
- All right, let's work hard! - Yes sir!
- Abe-san, we're going there too. - Okay.
It's great that Nana-chan was found, right?
Was she that desperate...?
Appraisal Request
Do we really have to investigate the gum's components?
Yes. I'll inquire with the manufacturer afterwards.
You won't back down, right?
Yes.
Um... but I think knowing the components of the gum isn't necessary.
Forensics is busy too.
Is it okay to slack off just because you're busy?
No, that isn't it.
To solve the case, we need to have plenty of points.
Those points would unexpectedly become a line.
Is what someone said.
I see.
Then please sign here.
Okay.
Give me a little time.
Oh by the way, is there a specialist on paper fortunes?
No, probably not.
But knowing you, you probably know at least three people...
No, probably not.
(Fortune)
(Number 18)
Not this one...
But it's "Great Blessings."
Is this your first time at a place like this?
Women are so lucky.
They have various ways of earning money.
There are a lot of stupid guys in this world after all.
(Hiring companions)
Girl for interview?
No.
Ah, this girl came here for an interview yesterday,
she said she would work in the evening but never came.
Nishino Mika-san.
Yes.
Well, we pay daily so I told her to come anytime.
About what time was that?
I think it was about 4 o'clock.
She was introduced by a regular customer.
Regular?
We're service-oriented after all.
A dentist?
Can I go now?
I have an interview soon.
Can you provide your fingerprint for our reference?
This is provision of information?
Well...
Is the director in?
Including the director, three of the dentists wear glasses.
Nishino Mika-san came here for a job interview, right?
At about 3:00 pm.
She was applying for a receptionist job and said that she wants to work while trying to get a health care certificate.
But that's too troublesome.
Meaning?
It's pretty common with young girls nowadays,
they don't know a single thing about writing resumes and they overestimate themselves.
They don't know their own value.
She's like that too.
So the cabaret?
Yes, she was young and cute after all.
She looked like she needed money too, so it's the perfect match.
I actually have an eye for people.
You talk as if you did something good.
Huh?
Thank you very much.
Little Miss, when you talk, you really talk.
Hello.
Itomura-san, what are you doing here?
I was planning to ask you something and when I was about to phone you, you were right in front of me.
What do you mean?
Ouch!
What's wrong with him?
- Itomura-san. - Huh?
- You're in the way. - What?
Excuse me, I'm passing by.
And what did you want to ask?
Which hospital is Nana-chan in?
Hospital?
Don't tell me you're going to see the baby?
Yes.
Why would you that? It has nothing to do with personal effects.
Really?
But it's kinda similar because she's something that the victim had left behind in this world.
I'm sure that she holds many memories.
That's why I want to see her.
You're going to the hospital?
Yes, I think it's better to see the baby first before seeing the bereaved family.
So you mean I should submit the fingerprints myself.
Please.
I'm borrowing her for a bit, okay?
Don't get too cocky, personal effects!
Did I say something weird?
Let's go.
Ah, oh? Over there?
The fingerprints on the gum wrapper didn't match the victim's.
Nor anyone on our records.
All right.
Chief, we found out who Nishino Mika was living in with.
Kashiwagi Yuya, 25 years old.
- All right, let's take him in! - Yes.
She was found in the lobby?
Yeah. In the evening, we realized that she was abandoned.
We called the police immediately.
As a precaution, we have examined her and we've found nothing abnormal. Please don't worry.
I see. I'm glad.
Cute.
Would you like to hold her?
Ah, no.
Then may I?
Hey, Nana-chan. Come here.
All right~
Hand stitched?
Nana-chan.
But I'm glad that Nana-chan is healthy.
I was really afraid to meet Nana-chan.
Huh?
What if she was abused by the live-in partner, just like Mika-san...
What if she was also bruised and wounded...
Good job today.
Good job.
Hey Kashiwagi!
Wait! Kashiwagi!
What?!
- Wait! - Don't run!
He ran away? Idiot!!
- Search for him immediately! - Yes!
I've already told you on the phone.
She hasn't come back since she ran away five years ago.
We have nothing to do with her.
There was no contact the whole time?
(Nishino)
No.
When our father died three years ago, I looked for her and contacted her
but I was ignored.
I thought she had completely abandoned the family at that time.
But she's your one and only sister, right?
What about it?
Are you saying that we're cold and mean just because we won't take her body?
I'm not saying that.
She's the one who was mean.
She abandoned her baby, didn't she?
Um, who's the father?
We don't know yet.
I thought so.
I'm sure you won't find him.
Nana-chan.
Huh?
The baby's name.
Nana-chan. Can you read it?
Cute, right?
Don't you have any plans of seeing Nana-chan?
At this rate, she'll be sent to a nursery as an abandoned child.
Even if I did, I can't do anything for her.
For Nana-chan's sake, I'm sure you'll find a way.
Oda-kun.
It's pretty cool to be a female detective.
I've never seen one before.
Feels like your dream came true?
I had a dream too.
But I've already forgotten it.
I receive unsold food from the supermarket and restaurant that I work at.
It was difficult but somehow we've managed to survive.
And yet you're only thinking of your situations when you ask us to take the body and take the child just because we're related!
You don't know anything about us!
Please leave me alone already!
Sae-san.
Does your mother feel the same way?
(Shiroyama Temple)
This was my sister's room.
She would wash and iron my sister's clothes everyday, just like that.
They're tattered already.
She's cried a lot already.
My sister disappeared and my father passed away... so I haven't seen her smiling face in a long time...
With her state, are you able to tell her that my sister was killed in a love hotel?
Plus she gave birth and abandoned the child?
Sae-san, is only 20 years old, right?
I was brandishing a flimsy sense of justice.
Of course she's sad that her sister passed away...
I'm sure she abhors the perpetrator too.
I've heard that you've been out since noon.
Huh?
I've received a complain from the station.
Investigating is our job.
I told you not to get in our way.
I wasn't trying to...
Listen, what's your job?
How many times till you get it? Don't investigate!
Just take care of the personal effects.
Yes.
It was death caused by shock from the facial fractures and head trauma.
It was a crime committed without a weapon.
The bruises on the body have nothing to do with the death and are the result of daily violence.
White rice, squid, octopus, and shrimp were found in the stomach. This is...
Yeah. It's probably sushi.
Sushi?
Yeah.
So are they taking the body?
Oh, that is...
How pitiful.
Kashiwagi Yuya, you know what this means, right?
Hey, you guys are too loud!
What the heck?! Let go!
Giving us such a hard time...
I'm very sorry.
Then why did you run away?
Well, I thought Mika ran off to the police.
How did you know Mika-san?
The child isn't yours, right?
O-of course.
Mika was the one who invited me.
She said living together is enough.
She never told me about the kid. I was deceived.
Is that a reason to hurt her?
But I think she'll go back to the apartment today.
In the end, that woman is just lonely.
Yeah.
- Chief. - Yeah?
Kashiwagi didn't match the fingerprint on the gum wrapper.
You don't know anything?
Huh?
Nishino Mika was murdered.
It was the night before yesterday.
No way, I know how to hold back too.
I only scolded her.
I didn't kill her, will I get punished for this?
Her bruises were caused by you, right?
That's assault!
You won't be able to leave right away, remember that!
But...
Among all the photos on the victim's cellphone, only these two have temples in them.
It's impossible to identify the temple this way.
Yes?
Roger!
Excuse me.
Here's the component list of the gum that you requested.
I've also contacted the manufacturer already.
Gracias.
What are you doing?
Oh? Yeah...
I don't know where she got her paper fortune.
Paper fortune, huh?
Shrine visit: practice of visiting a shrine to announce a baby's birth, and to pray to the local God.
This is a shrine visit, isn't it?
Huh?
Look, her baby is still little.
- You know, my sister... - Where do you normally do that?
It's usually done at shrines around the neighborhood.
They pray to the local god for protection. And you know...
But you've already investigated all the temples around her apartment, right?
Yeah.
(Shiroyama Temple)
I got it!
Itomura-san?!
What's wrong with him?
(Shiroyama Temple)
I knew it.
(Notebook: 4/19 Nishino Mika)
The weather's lovely today.
You're the police from the other day, aren't you?
This is something that was inside Mika-san's wallet.
I've been looking for the temple where she got this... Now I've finally found it.
Paper fortune? Why is there only half of it?
I don't know yet...
But the paper is still new, so she came here only recently.
I'm sure she also did Nana-chan's shrine visit here.
Sae-san, are you sure that you never met with Mika-san?
I'm sure she was pretty troubled.
I didn't.
I see.
There is one more thing.
Was Sae-san good at embroidery?
Huh?
Nana-chan's clothing had her name embroided on it.
I'm sure that with each stitch she was thinking of Nana-chan.
I was better at it.
Mom taught us the same way but as usual, her lines were crooked.
As usual?
Sae-san.
I lied.
The truth is, I saw her...
The day before she was killed.
(April 19th Mika)
Why contact me now after all these years?
You've become such an adult already.
Is Mom okay?
Her father?
Yeah.
A bunch of things happened.
Hey Sae.
I know it's too late to apologize.
Can you please lend me some money?
I have no one else to ask.
What the heck?
When Dad died, I contacted you after trying hard to find you but you ignored me and didn't come to the funeral!
Ever since then Mom...
Mom?
What's wrong with Mom?
Forget it.
Anyway, our ties were cut off then!
Actually, you're the one who did!
Mom and I have already forgotten you!
Don't come again!
In the end, I didn't lend her the money.
I just couldn't forgive her for being ignorant and selfish.
Maybe she abandoned her baby and was murdered because of me...
But am I the one at fault?
Is my sister not at fault?
Who would've know that this would happen?
Sae-san I...
Excuse me.
This is footage from a sushi bar near the cabaret club.
From the woman's clothing, it's definitely Nishino Mika-san.
There's no video from the front?
There isn't.
We can only tell that she was with a man.
Although it's a guarantee that it's him.
Yeah.
Oh, you found the man.
But his face can't be seen.
Can you zoom in?
We didn't, since you can only see his back.
- Stop! - Okay!
Rewind it a bit.
Rewind it!
This section here, right here.
Where?
It's right here.
- Huh? - Take a closer look, right here!
Right here. This is in my way.
Right here!
That's it!
Please zoom in to this part as much as possible.
Yes.
Little Miss, seen someone like him during investigation?
I don't think so.
Itomura-san.
Yeah?
The manufacturer has replied about the gum.
Oh, the gum.
Sample product.
Yeah.
It's a special gum for the teeth. One you can take after meals.
They distributed this new sample product to dental clinics around the metropolitan area.
Can you take his glasses off?
Yes.
Itomura-san!
I knew it.
You remember him?
The dentist!
Director, I'd like to ask you about the day of incident.
Tawada-san, are you around?
Tawada-san.
What could it be?
Do you know Nishino Mika-san?
No.
Tawada-san, three days ago, at around 3 pm, you went to the Sakagawa Dental Clinic where she was being interviewed.
Do you remember receiving a sample product from the receptionist after you cared for the decorative plants?
Here.
Ah, thank you very much.
And this is you, right?
Someone from our team remembered you.
- Excuse me, I'm passing by. - Oh, sorry.
Ah.
You get it, right? Come to the station with us.
No!
No!!
I was off that day, but we received a complaint so I had to check the status of some decorative plants.
I was surprised that the director rejected her application and recommended the cabaret.
And she said that she'll try and go.
I've been to that cabaret a couple of times so I tried going.
And she showed up.
So you talked to her?
What did you to say to invite her?
Huh?
I asked if she wants money.
And she easily came with me.
I fed her a lot of sushi too.
Come here.
But after we went inside and I gave her the money, she suddenly said:
I'm sorry. I can't do it after all.
You can't?!
What the heck!
Wasn't I kind to you?
What don't you like about me?
HUH?!
You must be joking!
Hey you!
That's why you went to that extent?
Have you seen her face?
But don't you think that it's her fault for suddenly returning the money and trying to run away?
You know, my glasses broke too.
Detective, I'm a victim too!
Right?!
She was only 22 years old and she had a baby!
Good job!
Good job too.
Huh? You look sad.
The family still doesn't want to take Mika-san's body.
I was so arrogant before...
When I couldn't even do anything.
Really? I'm sure that you could do something.
Really?
Yeah.
Well, there should be something.
I see!
Thanks.
Huh?
It says "Your wish will come true..."
Please!
- Well then, here. - Good job.
- Here! - Thank you very much.
Good work today.
See you later.
I'm sorry. I'll be leaving first.
Yes. Well, good work today.
Here you go.
Thank you very much.
Sorry for the trouble.
Good work today.
You too.
Sae-san.
Could I talk to you for a minute?
I have another job. I have to go.
Only three minutes... can you give me that much?
May Nana and I live together again soon. April 19th Mika
This is...
It's possible that on the day before the incident, your older sister wrote this before separating from Nana-chan.
Then it was after I met her.
I'm sure your sister didn't abandon Nana-chan, instead she was just getting someone else to care for her.
Maybe that's how she felt.
May I be able to find a job. May Nana's tummy be always full. May Nana and I live together again soon. April 19th Mika
And that was in order for Nana-chan to live.
To live.
But that was selfish. She's just relying on someone else.
That's right.
But there was a place that your sister can't rely on.
I'm sure your older sister thought,
"I want to save Nana-chan even if I have to let go of her."
But if she goes to an institution, they'll know her identity
and they might call your home.
And it will trouble you and your mom.
That's why she chose the hospital after seriously considering things.
They won't be able to find you,
and if something happens, she'll be cared for.
She didn't abandon her baby?
Oh, that's right.
This.
This is my sister's paper fortune that you showed before.
Where was the top part?
When I saw that wooden plaque, I figured that Nana-chan has it.
When I went to confirm, I saw that Nana-chan had a tiny hand-made charm, this big, around her neck.
Before separating from Nana-chan, Mika-san divided the "Great Blessings" between them.
Maybe she was thinking it can be a proof that she's the mother when she picks her up.
In other countries, they leave a matching picture card in the baby hatches.
But still, it's not right to abandon your own child.
Her methods may have been wrong,
but she was working hard to live.
Nana-chan was in that future she was imagining.
Sae-san, try turning over that wooden plaque.
(May Mom and Sae live happily.)
No way.
You normally don't write here.
It's just like her.
I'm sorry.
Sae-san.
Here's something about funerals and other public assistances.
Will you reconsider it?
We will... send my sister off...
Thanks for everything.
Huh?
And this is from all of us...
Thank you very much.
Then, I'll use this for Nana-chan...
Nana-chan?
Can I go meet Nana?
- Of course. - Yes!
I'm glad.
Thank you very much.
(May Nana-chan live happily.)
All right!
That reminds me, I paid for you in the fund-raising campaign.
10,000 yen.
I don't have any right now.
Oh, they're coming out.
Nana-chan!
Be well.
10,000 yen.
I told you, I have no money right now.
Let's go to the bank.
It seems like he walked anywhere from 10,000 to 15,000 per day.
Don't you think it's strange?
Taki-san was killed with a lanyard.
Then that means he really was going to places I didn't know about.
Won't you give me just three minutes?
Actually, I had my golf debut today, and it's the first time I reached 10,000 steps.
We walk more than 10,000 steps per day.
But I really think that she's hiding something.
That's rotten, isn't it?
Of course, it has abalone after all.
Itomura-san asked me for this.
I also walked the path that he took.